Laban Ainsworth

Laban Ainsworth (July 19, 1757 – March 17, 1858) was an American clergyman and pastor. He holds the record for the longest serving pastorate in American history. He served as pastor in Jaffrey, New Hampshire from 1782 to 1858, a period of 76 years.[1] Ainsworth was also adept at writing hymnals.

Biography

Laban Ainsowrth was born in Woodstock, Connecticut on July 19, 1757 to William and Mary Marcy Ainsworth.[2][3] As a result of suffering a severe attack of scarlet fever in childhood, Ainsowrth's right arm became withered and "nearly useless to him for life."[2] As a result of this disability, however, Ainsworth was able to focus on his education.[2] While he hoped to enter Harvard College in 1775, the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War prevented him from doing this and instead caused him to attend Dartmouth College--from which he graduated in 1778.[2] At Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he studied theology under the guidance of Reverend Stephen West.[2] He also preached for two years at Spencertown, New York, where he served as a chaplain for a few months with Major McKinstry's Corps in the American Revolutionary Army.[2] In 1782, he became pastor of Jaffrey, New Hampshire--a position that he held until his death 76 years later at age 100.[2][4] In 1787, he married Mary Minot (1761-1845) and had two children with her--a daughter named Sarah (1789-1857) and a son named William (1792-1842).[2][4][5]

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gollark: Rust would be better for this. It has ADTs.
gollark: Although I suppose its puny USB-OTG thing might not be happy with powering up my disk through an adapter.
gollark: In some sort of ridiculous emergency it's technically mountable from my spare phone (unlike NTFS, as the kernel on that is ancient).
gollark: You need special software to read the deduplicated/compressed/encrypted backup repositories off my disk *anyway*, so using a slightly less well supported filesystem is not a concern.

References
  1. Lambert, Peter (1999). "The Jaffrey Meetinghouse (brochure)". Town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  2. Annett, Albert. "People : Rev. Laban Ainsworth". Jaffrey History. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  3. "The Revolutionary Ancestry of the Members of the Warren and Prescott Chapter ... - Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution. Warren and Prescott chapter. Boston - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  4. Genealogy of the Ainsworth Families in America - Francis Jewett Parker - Internet Archive. Internet Archive. p. 47. Retrieved 2019-04-13. laban ainsworth dartmouth.
  5. "History of the Town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Masonian ... - Daniel Bateman Cutter - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.



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